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The United States’ allies have given mixed reactions to President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to withdraw American troops from war-torn Syria. On Wednesday Trump said in a Twitter video that “We’ve won against ISIS,” an English acronym for Daesh, and that

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he agreed with U.S. President Donald Trump that Daesh terrorists group has been defeated Commenting on Trump ordering U.S. troops home from Syria, Putin said, “I don’t know what US withdrawal from Syria means,

France will maintain its participation in the coalition fighting Daesh terrorist group in Syria, a government minister said Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump surprised Washington’s allies by ordering American troops home. “For now of course we remain in Syria,” France’s

New footage emerged Wednesday showing the 15-member Saudi hit squad entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul on the day Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. The footage, published by Anadolu Agency, showed several Saudis entering the perimeters of the consulate

The attorney general for Washington, D.C. said on Wednesday the nation’s capital city had sued Facebook over the scandal that broke earlier this year involving Cambridge Analytica’s use of data from the social media giant. “Facebook failed to protect the privacy

The United States imposed fresh Russia-related sanctions on Wednesday, including on several intelligence operatives for allegedly meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, but said it would lift sanctions on three companies controlled by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The U.S. Treasury said

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Istanbul on Wednesday evening to meet with his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan and Rouhani will chair the Fifth High Council for Strategic Affairs, at which the two countries are expected to increase bilateral trade

The U.N. General Assembly has endorsed a sweeping accord to ensure safe and orderly migration over opposition from five countries, including the United States and Hungary. The Global Compact for Migration is the first international document dealing with the issue, though